HBO The last of us has wrapped up its first season, and audiences are reeling after everything they experienced during the first nine episodes. Joel and Ellie’s journey through post-apocalyptic America was long and arduous, and the suffering they endured at the hands of humans and infected alike was far from forgiving.
Now that the first part of his adventure is finally over, here’s a look at some of the series’ most shocking moments.
7. Day of the outbreak
In a scene straight out of the game, Joel tries to escape Austin with Sarah and Tommy as the mutant cordyceps fungus spreads across the country, turning people into infected monsters. Sarah first encounters one in the form of her elderly neighbor, the once-kind Mrs. Adler, as she feasts on someone else’s body.
In the ensuing chaos, entire houses were burned down, riots flooded the streets, and bombs were dropped on the city. But in a horrific twist, a plane literally falls out of the sky, causing Joel’s truck to crash.
6. The day Ellie is born
In a scene made specifically for the show, Ellie’s mother, Anna, gives birth to her in an abandoned house just as she is fending off an attack by infected. Unfortunately, Anna becomes infected, but because it happened before she cut Ellie’s umbilical cord, Anna’s daughter became immune to Cordyceps.
Even so, Anna is forced to give Ellie over to Marlene, but asks her friend to kill her to prevent her from turning into another carnivorous monster. At first, it seems Marlene can’t bear to fulfill her friend’s dying wish, but after putting Ellie in the other room, Marlene returns and promptly shoots Anna dead, kicking off the season 1 finale with a bang. literal.
5. Sam and Henry die
Although Joel and Ellie escape Kansas City with Henry and Sam alive, eight-year-old Sam ends up infected with Cordyceps. Although Ellie tries to cure him with her blood, he wakes up the next morning to the infected Sam attacking her. Henry is then forced to shoot his little brother to death, but is so shocked by what he has done that he shoots himself in front of Joel and Ellie.
Even though it was pretty clear it was too late for Sam, it still doesn’t detract from how horrible it is to watch him and Henry die the way they did.
4. Ellie confronts David
In episode 8, Ellie meets David, a seemingly benevolent preacher who runs a small community of survivors in Colorado, but she soon learns that he is a violent and manipulative cult leader who secretly feeds his people, well… . people. Thus, it is implied that David secretly had one of the grieving girls in his community eat her recently dead father.
David only grows more obnoxious when he attempts to sexually assault Ellie as she tries to escape his wrath. At this point, there’s absolutely no sympathy in him, so it’s both a shock and a relief when Ellie picks up a knife and cuts him to death. Although Ellie makes it out of it alive, her screams of terror show that this experience will stay with her, as well as the audience, for a long time.
3. Bill and Frank’s Pact
In a sharp departure from the source material, Episode 3 reveals that Bill’s longtime partner Frank asked him to help him end his own life to spare both of them the burden of his wasting disease. The two make the most of their last day together by getting married, but it’s still heartbreaking to see Bill keep a promise to him by giving him wine laced with pills.
But Bill shocks Frank and the audience when he reveals that he also put pills in his own drink, choosing to die alongside Frank. Since Bill was alive in the game when Joel and Ellie arrive at his house, fans were hoping that only Frank would have died on the show. Thus, the suicides of Bill and Frank make a shocking end to such a loving couple.
2. Sarah’s death
Even a decade after the game’s release, the public was still not ready for this moment. After crashing on the streets of Austin, Texas, Joel and Sarah are on the run from an infected Runner who is chasing them at breakneck speed. An American soldier saves their lives, but their relief does not last as the gunman is ordered to shoot them both next.
Tommy arrives just in time to kill the soldier to rescue Joel, but Sarah is still shot and dies in her father’s arms. Although they escaped being killed by the Infected, Joel was unable to save his daughter from being killed by a normal man, establishing the true horror of this story.
1. Joel Kills the Fireflies
When Joel and Ellie finally arrive at the Fireflies’ base in Salt Lake City, the former is shocked to learn that they intend to create a cure for Cordyceps by taking a piece of Ellie’s brain in a fatal procedure, all without telling him what it is. would happen. to her. But instead of letting the fireflies perform the surgery and possibly save the world, Joel kills almost everyone in the building, along with Marlene, to save Ellie.
This moment has long been the subject of debate by many fans, but whether or not you think Joel did the right thing, you have to admit that he was wrong to brutally murder those people, including a Firefly who lowered his gun.
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